Clause Structure and Language Change

Klappentext The principles-and-parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume should appeal not only to scholars of historical syntax, but also to those interested in language change, syntactic variation and language variation as well. Zusammenfassung A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

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• Authors: Adrian Battye, Adrian (Late Professor of Linguistics Battye, Adrian Roberts Battye
• Assisted by: Adrian Battye (Editor), Battye Adrian (Editor), Ian Roberts (Editor), Roberts Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1995
• EAN: 9780195086331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508633-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages